The NSW Men's Health Information and Resource Centre

The NSW Health Resource Distribution Formula and health inequalities.

A key feature of the NSW health system is its 17 geographically-based area health services (AHSs). Funding to the AHSs by the NSW Department of Health has been guided by the objective of providing the AHSs with a share of resources that allows the achievement of comparable access to health services, assuming the achievement of reasonable levels of efficiency. The mechanism for achieving this ob...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

The Centre for Health Record Linkage: fostering population health research in NSW.

The benefits of researcher access to record linkage infrastructure are well recognised. Linkage transforms data that are collected on a routine basis as part of health care into a powerful resource for research. Linked data can be used to investigate the safety and quality of health care, the effectiveness of prevention and screening programs, and the patterns, costs and outcomes of health care...

NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition Soft Drinks , Weight Status and Health : A Review

ADHD medication overdose and misuse: the NSW Poisons Information Centre experience, 2004-2014.

OBJECTIVES To describe Australian trends in overdoses with medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS This was a retrospective observational study of intentional exposures to methylphenidate, dexamphetamine, modafinil and atomoxetine reported to the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (NSWPIC) from 1 January 2004 to 31 De...